Basic Info
n-XS summary
element
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Information about Californium-252:
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Californium-252 is used to inspect airline luggage for hidden explosives...
to gauge the moisture content of soil in the road construction and building
industries...
and to measure the moisture of materials stored in silos.
Mass-Energy Data:
| Atomic Mass: | 252.081620 | ± | 0.000005 | amu |
| Excess Mass (Δ): | 76.028139 | ± | 0.005095 | MeV |
| Binding Energy: | 1881.274575 | ± | 0.005106 | MeV |
| β- Decay Energy: | -1.260000 | ± | 0.050000 | MeV |
"The 1995 update to the atomic mass evaluation" by G.Audi and A.H.Wapstra,
Nuclear Physics A595 vol. 4 p.409-480, December 25, 1995.
Radioactive Decay Data:
- Spin: 0+
- Half life: 2.645 years ( 8.34233×10+07 sec., λ = 8.3088×10-09 s-1)
- Mode of decay:
α to
(Q = 6.217 MeV)
Branch ratio: 96.91 %
- Mode of decay: SF
Branch ratio: 3.09 %
- Possible parent nuclides:
- E.C. from
- α from
R.R.Kinsey, et al.,The NUDAT/PCNUDAT Program for Nuclear Data,paper submitted to the 9 th International Symposium of Capture-Gamma_raySpectroscopy and Related Topics, Budapest, Hungary, Octover 1996.Data extracted from NUDAT database (Jan. 14/1999)
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